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From: "André Pönitz" <andre.poenitz@nokia.com>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: cast in gdb python results in virtual baseclass botch
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:27:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201104131726.55718.andre.poenitz@nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTini00+LMH4JjDmNOWNe+2PMi+b3Lg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wednesday 13 April 2011 16:59:49 ext Christoph Mathys wrote:
> I try to cast a gdb.Value to another type. There are cases where it
> works, and others where it doesn't, and I don't really know why. If it
> doesn't work, I get the following exception when I call cast():
> RuntimeError: virtual baseclass botch
> 
> I use gdb 7.2, which apparently does not yet support dynamic_cast().
> 
> Both variables are stored inside a boost::shared_ptr, and I try to
> cast to contained interface pointer to a specific implementation
> pointer.

I don't think you have to cast. 

inner = item.value["px"].dereference()   has already the correct type.

Andre'


  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-13 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-13 14:59 Christoph Mathys
2011-04-13 15:27 ` André Pönitz [this message]
2011-04-13 17:08   ` Christoph Mathys
2011-04-13 17:09     ` Christoph Mathys
2011-04-13 17:29     ` André Pönitz
2011-04-14 13:45       ` Christoph Mathys
2011-04-14 16:03 ` Tom Tromey

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